John H. King

John Haskell King (19 February 1820-7 April 1888) was a Brigadier-General in the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
John Haskell King was born in Sackets Harbor, New York in 1820, and he later moved in with his relative Colonel Hugh Brady in Michigan. He joined the US Army in 1837 and served in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, becoming a Captain after the latter conflict. He was stationed in Texas at the time of the state's secession in 1861, and he helped Union soldiers to evacuate the state to New York. He commanded a regiment in the Western Theater and was wounded at the Battle of Stones River, being shot twice in the left harm and then in the left hand, and disclocating his shoulder after falling from his horse. On 4 April 1863, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and his brigade suffered 56% losses at the Battle of Chickamauga. He later held divisional command during the Atlanta Campaign, and he went on to command a corps. In July 1865, he was sent to the Western frontier, and he kept public order in Chicago during an 1877 railroad strike. He retired in 1882, and he died of pneumonia in Washington DC in 1888.